Under the Radar stays there....

Tue, 15 Nov 2005 05:25:06 GMT

I was pretty interested when I saw Robert Scoble's post about the companies presenting at this year's Under The Radar. I though even if the companies themselves were of little interest to me at least listening in on their experiences at Under the Radar and the results they saw after UtR would make interesting reading. I decided it would be worth my time to slap together an OPML file - a reading list of the Under the Radar companies for 2005. Little did I know...well, see for yourselves.

Companies presenting at Under the Radar:

ABREVITY - no rss

Akimbi - newsletter, white paper, no rss

Black Duck Software - webcasts, white papers, mailing lists. no rss

BRIDGESTREAM - white papers, presentations. no rss

Central Desktop - and they have a blog!

ClairMail - datasheets. no rss

Clearwell - no nothin'. definitely no rss.

Coverity - mailing lists. no rss

Enigmatec Corporation - no rss. not even their web design firm has rss.

Starts Here" href="http://www.fortifysoftware.com/">Fortify Software _Security - no rss

funambol - need I say it? no rss

GroveSite - ahh, web collaboration. white papers, demos, newsletter. no rss.

Identity Engines - they have a resource library. but no rss.

IDV Solutions - nope, no rss.

Intelligenxia.com - this is getting boring; no rss.

Leostream - ho hum.

metallect - whatever that means. no rss

Oakley Networks - nope.

Oversight Systems - yes! they have a blog

Pandora Networks - nothing doin'

Reconnex - nope.

Reva Systems - uh uh.

RF Code - no.

SoonR - they reference some blog posts on their home page, but no rss.

SWsoft

Sxip Identity - touting themselves as an Identity 2.0 company, of course they have a blog. Not really all that under the radar either (or at least not under mine).

T3Ci

Tablus

Tekever - site is IE only. oops.

TrueDemand Software

Trusted Network Tech

Zimbra� - a blog and rss-enabled forums!

Now, I know I've been drinking the kool-aid, and I really didn't expect all of these companies to have blogs, but I thought more than 1 in 10 of participants in "a one-day showcase of early-stage innovation" would be able to see the value of providing their news, white papers, and other timely information in RSS. Most of these companies were under my radar before Scoble's post, and I expect most of them will remain there.

For what it's worth, and OPML file of the 4 companies that do want to communicate with interested parties can be found here.

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OPML Validation and case-friendliness

Tue, 15 Nov 2005 05:17:52 GMT

Dave, I have a question: The spec says nothing about OPML being case-unfriendly, and the OPML Editor doesn't treat attributes as case-sensitive*, but the validator fails a file when the attributes "xmlurl" and "htmlurl" are used, but not the same file when "xmlUrl" and "htmlUrl" are used. Is this an oversight?

* I say this because I have a right-click menu item that looks like this:

When I use it to check "xmlurl" and "xmlUrl" they both return the same value, which indicates to me that it's treating both strings as equivalent.

Anyone who has thoughts on this can comment here

cori schlegel's OPML blog

Under the Radar stays there....

OPML Validation and case-friendliness